PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 59, 12 March 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL.

Mr Thomas Browne, the novelist, better known as "Rolf Bolderwood," is dead, reports a Sydney cablegram.

Mr G. W. Browne, ex-mayor of New Plymouth, has acceded to the request to again stand for the mayoralty.

Major Guy Louis Du Maurier, D. 5.0., author oi the patriotic play, "An. Englishman's Home," was killed at the front.

Mr Graham succeeds Mr A. C. Oar- t michael as Minister for Education in the New South Wales Cabinet.

Mr Primrose McConnell, manager of the State Experimental Farm at Rua kura, has tendered his resignation to the Government.

Dr. Elizabeth Macdonald, senior house surgeon at the Dunedin Hosrital, has been appointed medical in-pfc-tor of schools for the Auckland dis trict.

The death of the Rev. R, F. MacNicol, formerly minister of St. James' Presbyterian Church, in Auckland, is announced to-day per Press Association.

The appointment by the Governor of the following members of the first and second divisions of the Court of Appeal is announced in the Gazette:

—First division: Sir Robert Stout and Justices Denniston, Sim, Hosting. and Stringer. Second division: Sir Robert Stout and Justices Edwards, Cooper, and Chapman.

A postcard dated London 18th, January, received from Sir John Heslop, informs the Eltham Argus that be expects to leave for New Zealand in about a fortnight, and would endeavour to arrange for a passport tha-t he might'on his way out see our New Zealand contingents in Egypt.'